I'm looking for advice for what my next smart phone should be and am looking for as many opinions as possible.
A bit of background, I live in the US and not in town. I am a very much outdoors kind of person and work in an industrial enviroment. I also am a heavy user when it comes to my phone for streaming during downtimes and for work itself. Outside of work I'm constantly streaming music.
Currently I have a Galaxy S10. Or should I say I am on my third S10 since it launched. I have always had good experiences with samsung products until now. This phone has been nothing but an issue for me. Easily broken I have destroyed two screens even while using cases. Including this one. What inevitably keeps killing phones for me though is charging port failures. I am also in a constant battle for signal both at work and at home. I also feel like I'm constantly tethered to the wall with this thing or leaving it behind to charge assuming I can even get it to keep charging on its own. About the only thing I've been hapoy with since day one is performance.
I have even gone through with changing networks from sprint, to at&t, and now tmobile. I know the phone is the issue. Even running battery saver function has been on since the first week to keep it alive on each phone. Co workers on the same carrier don't have an issue at work, and friends and family that visit don't seem to have an issue at my home. I get on my bike and go for a ride and hit dead zones all over that my friends don't have an issue with. This has remained the same for all three phones.
So this has me looking into new and different phones. I've started looking at rugged phones due primarily to battery size. I need the extra battery. Battery cases that I've been looking at online seem to have either terrible reviews or offer little to no protection. Looking at friends and co workers phones many are lacking key features I actually use. Looking around online at some of the rugged phone manufacturers all I can seem to find are strange brands that I'm not sure I trust or old releases that are already out of date. My wife recently picked up the newest note from the note 9 and is now also having signal problems so I'm starting to believe its a samsung problem.
So basically what I'm looking for is a phone that has a large battery, fast charging, durable, and gets good reception. It needs to be waterproof and a headphone jack is a huge plus with hardware comparable or close to my s10. Id also really like it to be 5g compatible as I don't want to change phones any time soon and would like that bit of future proofing aspect. Other features like infared would be nice for work but not required.
If anyone could help that would be great, I just need to know whats out there that actually is good.
A bit of background, I live in the US and not in town. I am a very much outdoors kind of person and work in an industrial enviroment. I also am a heavy user when it comes to my phone for streaming during downtimes and for work itself. Outside of work I'm constantly streaming music.
Currently I have a Galaxy S10. Or should I say I am on my third S10 since it launched. I have always had good experiences with samsung products until now. This phone has been nothing but an issue for me. Easily broken I have destroyed two screens even while using cases. Including this one. What inevitably keeps killing phones for me though is charging port failures. I am also in a constant battle for signal both at work and at home. I also feel like I'm constantly tethered to the wall with this thing or leaving it behind to charge assuming I can even get it to keep charging on its own. About the only thing I've been hapoy with since day one is performance.
I have even gone through with changing networks from sprint, to at&t, and now tmobile. I know the phone is the issue. Even running battery saver function has been on since the first week to keep it alive on each phone. Co workers on the same carrier don't have an issue at work, and friends and family that visit don't seem to have an issue at my home. I get on my bike and go for a ride and hit dead zones all over that my friends don't have an issue with. This has remained the same for all three phones.
So this has me looking into new and different phones. I've started looking at rugged phones due primarily to battery size. I need the extra battery. Battery cases that I've been looking at online seem to have either terrible reviews or offer little to no protection. Looking at friends and co workers phones many are lacking key features I actually use. Looking around online at some of the rugged phone manufacturers all I can seem to find are strange brands that I'm not sure I trust or old releases that are already out of date. My wife recently picked up the newest note from the note 9 and is now also having signal problems so I'm starting to believe its a samsung problem.
So basically what I'm looking for is a phone that has a large battery, fast charging, durable, and gets good reception. It needs to be waterproof and a headphone jack is a huge plus with hardware comparable or close to my s10. Id also really like it to be 5g compatible as I don't want to change phones any time soon and would like that bit of future proofing aspect. Other features like infared would be nice for work but not required.
If anyone could help that would be great, I just need to know whats out there that actually is good.